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|  | The Bad Girl's Guide to the Open Road by Cameron Tuttle, Susannah Bettag
Here is indispensable information on how to get out of a speeding ticket without crying, open a beer bottle on your car, what to do when your engine overheats, you get a flat, or need a safe (and legal) place to sleep in your car. Humorous illustrations. AUTHOR: Cameron Tuttle, Susannah Bettag
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | Dirt Under My Nails by Marilee Foster
Based on her column for the Southampton Press, Foster writes about four seasons on her farm in eastern Long Island, although encroaching developments are constantly in the periphery, she mostly speaks of the land and the food that it produces. AUTHOR: Marilee Foster
PUBLISHER: Bridge Works Publishing Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Bead on an Anthill by Delphine Red-Shirt
Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl`s experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her books and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors. AUTHOR: Delphine Red-Shirt
PUBLISHER: University of Nebraska Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | 150 Ways to Increase Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom by James P. Raffini
Here's practical help for becoming a powerful influence over your students' intrinsic motivation--by helping them meet their psychoacademic needs for autonomy, competence, relatedness, self-esteem, and enjoyment. AUTHOR: James P. Raffini
PUBLISHER: Allyn & Bacon, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis by Biloine W. Young, Melvin L. Fowler
Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. Cahokia, a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs, was designed as a reflection of the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. At its height the metropolis had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. Its centerpiece, Monk's Mound, ten stories tall, is the largest pre-Columbian structure in North America, with a base circumference larger than that of either the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt or the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Melvin Fowler, the dean of Cahokia archaeologists, and Biloine Whiting Young tell an engrossing story of the struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl. Now identified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and protected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia serves as a reminder that the indigenous North Americans had a past of complexity and great achievement. AUTHOR: Biloine W. Young, Melvin L. Fowler
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
In this second title in The Prydain Chronicles, Taran joins Prince Gwydion as he leads the quest to destroy the Black Cauldron, the source of the evil powers of the Lord of the Land of Death. Other titles in this quintet are Book of Three , Castle of Llyr , Taran Wanderer , and The High King , winner of the Newbery Medal. AUTHOR: Lloyd Alexander
PUBLISHER: Random House Children's Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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